Walker had rejected the casino on the grounds that it would hurt the Potawatomi Casino in Milwaukee and the Ho Chunk casinos in the Wisconsin Dells and Madison. He was also concerned that it would contribute...

Menominee Tribal members began a 155-mile trek to Madison from Keshena on Friday, as part of an effort to convince Gov. Scott Walker to change his mind regarding a proposed casino complex in Kenosha before a federal deadline of Feb. 19 is reached.

Two Wisconsin organizations are receiving federal grants to help recruit and train the next generation of farmers. The head of one of those groups talks about a looming shortage of farmers in the state, and how his group is working to patch that gap.

Local jails all across the country are being misused, often resulting in the poor and mentally ill languishing behind bars for disproportionate periods of time. That's according to a new report; one of its authors looks at how we got here, and how policymakers can correct the course of the nation's jails.

Two years ago, Gov. Scott Walker declined to take $300 million in federal money to expand Wisconsin's Medicaid program, but a GOP leader on the state's budget committee said lawmakers should discuss accepting it now.

Now that there’s a measles outbreak, it’s time for me to harp again on vaccinations. First of all, I was not always as pro-vaccine as I am now. Being a child of the 1960s, I thought for a while that vaccines were a communist plot to ruin our children. Well,...